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I’m here to post about my conlangs and read about yours! You can also find me at https://levunalangs.tumblr.com/ and https://youtube.com/@levunalangs
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Today’s #Lexember word is in my musical #conlang Sdefa again! This one means “visit,” and the short example sentence is a true story from yesterday: “I visited my friend, and we had fun!”

You can hear it here, because Bluesky doesn’t let me attach audio files: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes D, C, G, D, C, and at the bottom is the English translation: “visit.”
December 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Today’s #Lexember word in my musical #conlang Sdefa is {A♭ B♭ A♭ F G}, meaning “fry.” I almost accidentally made it a homophone of “egg!”

You can find out more and hear a short (16-second!) piece of music with both words in it here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A flat, B flat, A flat, F, G, and at the bottom is the English translation: “fry.”
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Today’s Valya word for #Lexember is *ndligi*, meaning “harvest,” “pick/pluck,” or “choose.” A derived expression is *Müshasi ndligi (pa)*, “The cards decided (that),” meaning something (usually something good) happened by chance!

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A graphic showing the word “ndligi” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “harvest,” “choose.” Two sentences in the Valya script, each followed by a transliteration and translation. The first transliteration reads, “Müshasi ndligi pa ra fsi mumumwu ri tu danu kitni!” The first translation reads, “I happened to find these cherries on the table today!” The second transliteration reads, “Müshasi? Ra ndligi mu ba ra küldi mu tu danu!” The second translation reads, “You happened to? I picked them and put them there!”
December 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I’ve got two #Lexember words today, since I missed yesterday!

The Sdefa word {A B D B} means “animal,” which is a reference to a Simon and Garfunkel song!

*Gwunda* in Valya means “watch (out).” Historically, it was “watch,” but is now more commonly “be careful.”

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A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A B D B, followed by the English translation “animal.” Below that is the word “gwunda” in the Valya script, with the translation “watch,” “be careful.”
December 13, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Today’s #Lexember word in my #conlang Valya is *sfuru*, meaning both “deep” and “old.” You can read more about how it came to have both of those meanings here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...
A graphic showing the word “sfuru” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “deep,” “old.” A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation. The transliteration reads, “Fli lu ndu ba sfuru tlupura.” The translation reads, “The ocean is large and very deep,” or “The ocean is large and very old.”
December 12, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Today’s #Lexember word is {F G E D}, meaning “kind.” You can read more here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...

Keep an eye out for another post with an example sentence for this word—all but one of my Sdefa words so far this Lexember have been made specifically for this upcoming translation!
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes F G E D, and at the bottom is the English translation: “kind.”
December 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Today’s #Lexember word in my musical #conlang Sdefa is {A G A E D}, meaning “entangle.”

Unlike most Sdefa words, it’s not a reference to a piece of music with a related meaning. Instead, it’s just a pun: those are the first five notes of Ravel’s string quartet!

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A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes A G A E D, and at the bottom is the English translation: “entangle.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Today’s Valya word for #Lexember is *ksüvani*, meaning “well” or “spring.” It’s shortened from the phrase *duhra ksüvani,” literally “water-giver.” There are a few other terms for well in Valya, which you can read about here:

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A graphic showing the word “ksüvani” in the Valya script, as well as the translation “well.” A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation. The transliteration reads, “Zu sühwi tanu gvu duhra za ksüvani.” The translation reads, “Go get some water at the well.” (Literally, “Go lift some water from the well.”)
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Today’s #Lexember word in my #conlang Valya is hirinyu, meaning “warmth” or “heat.” The actual new thing for today is the nominalizing prefix hiri-, which is only used for adjectives (as opposed to ki-, which nominalizes verbs and occasionally adjectives).

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A graphic showing the word hirinyu in the Valya script, as well as the translation “heat, warmth.” A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and translation. The transliteration reads, “Kihirinyu dyihlira ra. Mükrimwa kurta lu dru sabghu nguva mupya dru sabghu, nkivgani dru sabghu, ba gamu!” The translation reads, “I don’t like the heat. The colder seasons are better, because they have better food, better clothing, and the snow!”
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Today’s Sdefa word for #Lexember is {E A F♯ A}, meaning “beautiful.” Check out the post to hear a short musical piece that uses it!

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A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes E A F♯ A, and at the bottom is the English translation: “beautiful.”
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Today’s Valya word for #Lexember is *dishu*, meaning “dry” or “dried.” When used as a noun by itself, it often refers to dried fruits. It’s also used to mean “thirsty,” though there are a few other ways to say that as well. You can find out about those other ways here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...
The word “dishu,” meaning “dry” or “dried,” in the Valya script.
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Today’s Sdefa word for #Lexember is C B C D C, meaning “lack” in a fundamental, permanent, or intrinsic way, not just missing something temporarily.

You can read more about the story behind this word here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...
A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes C, B, C, D, C, and at the bottom is the English translation: “lack.”
December 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Back to Valya for #Lexember 3rd! I had to make a new dissimilation rule for this word, because I could *not* deal with saying [ra.ra.ru]. So instead *radaru* means “pond,” diminutive of *radu* “lake,” itself originally the diminutive of “sky,” because reflections.

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The word “radaru,” meaning “pond” or “pool” in the Valya script. A sentence in the Valya script, followed by a transliteration and a translation: The children enjoy swimming and playing in the pond.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I almost forgot to post today’s #Lexember word, which is a great sign this early in the month.

This time it’s in my musical #conlang Sdefa: this word means “count” or “measure.” Sdefa has two orthographies, so you get both of those in addition to the music notation!

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A graphic showing a Sdefa word in two different writing systems. Below that is music notation showing the notes G, A flat, B flat, A flat, G, and at the bottom is the English translation: “measure, count.”
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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It’s #Lexember again! Just like last year, I’ll be posting new words in my #conlang Valya, with more detailed posts on Tumblr.

Day one is *buba*, meaning “frog”! That is of course a very subtle reference to my friends at @letshaveabouba.bsky.social!

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A graphic showing a word in the Valya script, followed by the transliteration “buba” and the English translation, “frog.” A sentence in the Valya script, which is very curly and loopy, followed by a transliteration and translation. The transliteration reads: Tüküra küra mbuba samünwintsa nggvala kimblu? The translation reads: How do frogs jump and jump and not get tired?
December 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Today’s Valya word is hnuhnulu, meaning “bat!”

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Lba kibgha fu sika hnuhnulu nwi, ba tu kngiva tni mu nitya zaku.

Hundreds of bats live under that bridge, and they fly out at sunset.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Valya!? Again!!??

Yes, I am returning to working on a *spoken* conlang! Imagine that.

I’m easing back into daily-ish Valya posts with a quick translation, which you can read more about at www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...
October 31, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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After no conlang posts in over a month (!) here’s a new post for a new language! It’s a “cursed” musical conlang, involving harmonies strange enough that they’re basically unplayable on any instrument. As far as I know, anyway.

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August 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Happy sleepy #caturday from Levuna!
July 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I’m taking a break from the word of the day posts for a bit! They will be back sometime soon, but in the meantime I’ve got some other conlang stuff to work on.
July 21, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Today’s Valya word is pyapra, meaning ‘party’ or ‘festival.’ It comes from pya, ‘meal,’ plus the (brand new) augmentative suffix -pra. Because the augmentative conveys significance more than literal size, it’s occasionally combined with the diminutive!

Read more here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...
July 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Today’s Valya word is dghalwu, ‘oak.’ Since gvu is both ‘leaf’ and ‘piece,’ gvu dghalwu is ambiguous.

Prepositions might clear it up (da is ‘of’ and hru is ‘made of,’ more or less) but it could still be unclear. I’m sure there’s a way to disambiguate that the Valya speakers haven’t taught me yet.
July 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Today’s Valya word is ‘nuna,’ meaning ‘circle’ or ‘loop.’ ‘Nunarwa,’ lit. ‘loop-make,’ is ‘repeat’ or ‘return.’ ‘Tnuna,’ from ‘the loop,’ is ‘year,’ so ‘the year’ is ‘kitnuna,’ etymologically ‘the the year.’ A more poetic way to say ‘year’ is ‘kihngüli krimwa,’ ‘the wheel of seasons.’
July 18, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Yesterday’s word (oops!) was ‘hngüli’ /ŋ̊y.li/, meaning ‘wheel.’ It’s related to ‘hngu’ ‘turn’ (intrans.), ‘hündi’ ‘turn’ (trans.), and ‘hunggla’ ‘spin.’

You can find out just how those words are all related here: www.tumblr.com/levunalangs/...
July 18, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Today’s Valya word is ‘krimwa,’ meaning ‘time’ or ‘season.’ ‘Time’ in this case is (generally) a longer period, as opposed to ‘sivi,’ a moment. The seasons’ names (or at least one set of them) are ‘krimwa’ with various colors: green for spring/summer, red/orange/brown for fall, and white for winter.
July 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM